*Documents Reveal Obama's EPA Approved Toxic Chemicals (specifically, PFAs) for Fracking in 2011.* Since these chemicals do not naturally degrade, if they get into water supplies they will remain there, perhaps for thousands of years.

We should not allow frackers to keep any secrets about what they are putting into the well.

(satire) *Historic Heat Wave Causes California Wildfire To Catch Fire.*

The employees that work for Cook County (which contains Chicago) are on strike, and Bernie Sanders came to show support for them.

The mainstream media are starting to recognize that digital "toys" for children are likely to snoop on them. They do that as a consequence of containing nonfree software. The user community can't study and fix the software so it doesn't spy, and that means the users have no protection except to reject these toys, separately.

I do not consider any digital functionality to be an "enhancement" of life it is controlled by someone other than its users.

In union there is strength. If users try to "negotiate" with the companies by rejecting products, they have little clout and little influence.

The article says that the ROYBI Robot "has a camera and microphone to detect facial and emotional reactions from kids, but all of the information collected is controlled through a parent or guardian's account." I am not sure what "controlled...account" means concretely, but I tend to think that it is not adequate to protect the child's privacy.

When will the mainstream media realize that snooping is just as wrong when carried out against adults?

Right-wingers misrepresent critical race theory; then they make false accusations which are a parody of the facts of systemic racism.

The article explains how this is standard right-wing practice. They superficially reverse what progressives say, and don't care that that mirror image is incoherent and false.